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SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND FACIES ANALYSIS OF THE ROLLINS SANDSTONE MEMBER (MOUNT GARFIELD FORMATION) AND RE-EXAMINATION OF THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE MOUNT GARFIELD AND WILLIAMS FORK FORMATIONS (LATE CRETACEOUS)
dc.contributor.advisor | Kamola, Diane L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Jesse David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-13T01:53:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-13T01:53:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-08-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11728 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8393 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Cretaceous Rollins Sandstone Member (Mount Garfield Formation) is the youngest marine sandstone deposited within the Sevier foreland basin in Colorado. The Rollins Sandstone Member is a complicated stratigraphic unit that consists of four progradationally stacked sequences. These sequences were deposited as a result of high-frequency changes in sea level. Each sequence initiates with an incised valley fill and contains a single parasequence within the highstand systems tract. Parasequences within highstand systems tracts contain offshore to marine-shoreface deposits. The top of the Rollins Sandstone Member is a surface that results from the progradation of a single strandline. This surface can be used as a regional datum. This new datum indicates there is no upward-climbing geometry at the top of the Mount Garfield Formation, and the Rollins Sandstone Member and the Cameo Wheeler coal zone (of the Williams Fork Formation) are not time-equivalent units. The marine- shoreface deposits within the Rollins Sandstone Member represent high-energy shorefaces. These shorefaces had daily wave heights of 1-2 m and Nor'easter-scale storms occurring several times a year. These high-energy conditions produced a straight coastline along the western edge of the Cretaceous Western Interior seaway. | |
dc.format.extent | 95 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Geology | |
dc.subject | Cretaceous | |
dc.subject | High frequency sequences | |
dc.subject | Incised valley | |
dc.subject | Piceance basin | |
dc.subject | Sequence stratigraphy | |
dc.subject | Shoreface | |
dc.title | SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND FACIES ANALYSIS OF THE ROLLINS SANDSTONE MEMBER (MOUNT GARFIELD FORMATION) AND RE-EXAMINATION OF THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE MOUNT GARFIELD AND WILLIAMS FORK FORMATIONS (LATE CRETACEOUS) | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Walton, Anthony W. | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Black, Ross A. | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Geology | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.S. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 7643308 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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